Highland Cows With Music On History Visit To Isle Of Mull Inner Hebrides Scotland

Tour Scotland short 4K travel video clip, with Scottish music bagpipes, of Highland Cows on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the coast of the Isle Of Mull, Inner Hebrides, Britain, United Kingdom. The highland breed of cattle has a long and distinguished ancestry, not only in its homeland of western Scotland, but also in many far flung parts of the world. One of Britain's oldest, most distinctive, and best known breeds, with a long, thick, flowing coat of rich hair and majestic sweeping horns, the Highlander has remained largely unchanged over the centuries. Highland cattle were first mentioned in the 6th century AD, and were descended from longhorn cattle brought to Britain by farmers of the late Stone Age. The breed standard for Highland cattle was created in 1885. Breeding stock has been exported to many other continents beginning in the 1900s, including Australia and North America. Highland Cattle or Heilan Coo in Scots, comes from the Gaelic translation of Ghaidhealach. Mull, Scottish Gaelic An t-Eilean Muileach, has a long coastline, and its climate is moderated by the Gulf Stream. Mull is the second largest island of the Inner Hebrides, after Isle of Skye, and lies off the west coast of Scotland in the council area of Argyll and Bute. Mull is the fourth largest island in both Scotland and the United Kingdom. The Isle of Mull has probably been inhabited since shortly after the end of the last Ice Age, around 11,000 years ago. In the 6th century AD, Irish migrants invaded Mull and the surrounding coast and established the Gaelic kingdom of Dál Riata. The kingdom was divided into a number of regions, each controlled by a different kinship group one of these, the Cenél Loairn, controlled Mull and the adjacent mainland to the east. Dál Riata was a springboard for the Christianisation of the mainland; the pivotal point was in AD 563, when Columba, an Irish missionary, arrived on the island of Iona, just off the southwest point of Mull, and founded a monastery there from which to start evangelising the local population. In the 9th century, Viking invasions led to the destruction of Dál Riata and its replacement by the Norse Kingdom of the Isles, which became part of the kingdom of Norway following Norwegian unification around 872. The Kingdom of the Isles was much more extensive than Dál Riata, encompassing also the Outer Hebrides and Skye. The island kingdom became known as the Suðreyjar, meaning southern isles in Old Norse. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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